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Sep 8, 2005 · Health informatics helps doctors with their decisions and actions, and improves patient outcomes by making better use of information—making more efficient the way patient data and medical knowledge is captured, processed, communicated, and applied.
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- What Is Protected Health Information?
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To provide an accurate Protected Health Information definition, it is necessary to review the definitions of “health information” and “Individually identifiable health information” as they appear in the General HIPAA Provisions (§160.103). Starting with “health information”, this is defined as any information, including genetic information, whether...
The reason the definitions above do not fully answer the question what is Protected Health Information is that it still needs to be explained where the HIPAA identifiers fit into the definition and why sources have mistaken the identifiers as a definition of Protected Health Information. After all, since when has a license plate number had anything...
A further issue with using the identifiers listed in §164.514 to explain what is Protected Health Information is that the list was created more than twenty years ago – since when there have been multiple changes in the way individuals can be identified. For example, the list does not include email addresses, social media handles, LGBTQ statuses, an...
Would patient information such as “Mrs. Green from Miami” be considered PHI?
Patient information such as Mrs. Green from Miami would be considered PHI if it is maintained in the same designated record as the patient or in a designated record set of any other patient with whom Mrs. Green from Miami has a relationship (i.e., family member, friend, employer, etc.).
What are allowable uses and disclosures of PHI?
Allowable uses and disclosures of PHI are uses and disclosures of information maintained in a designated record set for purposes allowed by the Privacy Rule that do not require a patient’s authorization. These include – but are not limited to – uses for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations, and disclosures to public health agencies for some communicable diseases.
What are incidental uses and disclosures of PHI?
Incidental uses and disclosures of PHI are those that occur accidentally as a by-product of another allowable use or disclosure. Provided the covered entity or business associate has applied reasonable safeguards and implemented the minimum necessary standard with respect to the primary use or disclosure, there is no violation of HIPAA.
Find definitions of medical abbreviations commonly found in health records. If you do not know an abbreviation, you may be able to find out what it means here.
Jun 17, 2011 · Finally, the term health information management usually refers to the management of health data and information that is captured in medical or health records. Now that such records are increasingly electronic, the field of health information management overlaps some aspects of health informatics.
- Prudence W. Dalrymple
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Dec 23, 2019 · Health Informatics is the practice of acquiring, studying and managing health data, and applying medical concepts in conjunction with information technology systems to help clinicians provide better healthcare.
- Uwe Aickelin, Wendy W. Chapman, Graeme K. Hart
- 2019
The health information system (HIS) is an information system for processing data, information, and knowledge in health care environments. The goal of a HIS is to use computers and communication equipment to collect, store, process, retrieve, and communicate patient care and administrative information for all hospital‐affiliated activities ...
Apr 17, 2008 · Confidentiality in the medical setting refers to “the principle of keeping secure and secret from others, information given by or about an individual in the course of a professional relationship,”1 and it is the right of every patient, even after death.2
